Well my friend in Portland that fills lots of incoming from 800 got an order he said he looked at all day.
It came to him at $40.
The card message read "Well I had nothing better to spend $50 on than this for you - hope you like it" (or something of the sort, with the $50 emphasized.
He'd finally decided he was gonna change the card message when they called for a decon.
He told them he was not going to deliver a $32 bouquet when the card clearly sez "hey look what you're getting from blah blah florist for $50", that he was going to change the card message. They said Oh No can't do that.
He told them they needed to give him $50 plus his delivery fee of $8.
and, get this - it was an apology bouquet from 800. Meaning, you already got cheesed off recipients.
They cancelled. I'm certain they found a sucker who filled it.
Sometmes I think he's dumb for courting all that incoming, yet he's been in biz a lot longer than me...
so wtfdik?
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The second part of the dumb and dumberer is - the Lovely 2yla was at a board meeting while I was gone and she said "man some of those people are bamboozle-able."
She asked if they were promoting the TF contest in their stores and they all said "oh yes of course!"
She gave them the short version of them freely handing (make that shoving) their customers over to TF, and it went right over their heads. Whoosh!
She repeated what was up, asked "why don't you just open your books and give them your customer list too?"
Whoosh!
Reminds me of a time about 10 years ago we had a "florist round table" at a design show. MC-ing was a florist from the next city.
One said "well what do you do about these 800 orders that want stargazers and roses for $29.95?"
I piped up and said "you refuse them!"
Jim the MC sez "now jonathon we don't want to be known for refusing orders..."
I said "I do - it's my name on the order!"
I looked around the room and got a bunch of sneers and dirty looks from the rest of the group, directed at me.
I just got up and kinda slunk out of the room.
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part 3 of dumbest?
Are you promoting that contest in your shop?
Please raise your hand. :corky
It came to him at $40.
The card message read "Well I had nothing better to spend $50 on than this for you - hope you like it" (or something of the sort, with the $50 emphasized.
He'd finally decided he was gonna change the card message when they called for a decon.
He told them he was not going to deliver a $32 bouquet when the card clearly sez "hey look what you're getting from blah blah florist for $50", that he was going to change the card message. They said Oh No can't do that.
He told them they needed to give him $50 plus his delivery fee of $8.
and, get this - it was an apology bouquet from 800. Meaning, you already got cheesed off recipients.
They cancelled. I'm certain they found a sucker who filled it.
Sometmes I think he's dumb for courting all that incoming, yet he's been in biz a lot longer than me...
so wtfdik?
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The second part of the dumb and dumberer is - the Lovely 2yla was at a board meeting while I was gone and she said "man some of those people are bamboozle-able."
She asked if they were promoting the TF contest in their stores and they all said "oh yes of course!"
She gave them the short version of them freely handing (make that shoving) their customers over to TF, and it went right over their heads. Whoosh!
She repeated what was up, asked "why don't you just open your books and give them your customer list too?"
Whoosh!
Reminds me of a time about 10 years ago we had a "florist round table" at a design show. MC-ing was a florist from the next city.
One said "well what do you do about these 800 orders that want stargazers and roses for $29.95?"
I piped up and said "you refuse them!"
Jim the MC sez "now jonathon we don't want to be known for refusing orders..."
I said "I do - it's my name on the order!"
I looked around the room and got a bunch of sneers and dirty looks from the rest of the group, directed at me.
I just got up and kinda slunk out of the room.
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part 3 of dumbest?
Are you promoting that contest in your shop?
Please raise your hand. :corky
